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Many service business owners are shocked to discover that running a service business can be an exhausting, expensive struggle. But it doesn't have to be. You don't have to sacrifice your money, your health, and your time with family.

Everything equal, customers choose whether they will return based on the feeling they get when interacting with your brand. Research reveals that a high number of customers will go through the trouble of switching brands due to a bad experience. Great businesses know how to make a customer feel seen, understood, and valued. Those satisfied customers trust you more and come back—and they tell their friends. Backed by plenty of on-the-ground research and real-life examples, The Come Back Culture shows you how to create an experience that keeps people coming back for more.

The team behind the data management platform that helps fuel Salesforce - the number one customer relationship management (CRM) company in the world - presents this indispensable guide to data-powered marketing. You’ll discover the three principles for building a successful data strategy and the five sources of data-driven power. You’ll hear how top companies put these data-driven strategies into action. And if you’re wondering what the future holds, you’ll receive seven forecasts to better prepare you for what may come next.

In Customer Love: Great Stories about Great Service you will explore 24 unforgettable stories about phenomenal customer service. Each chapter will ignite your thoughts and inspire new ideas that you can use to take your customer service to the next level. Share this audiobook with your employees and watch the creative ideas flow. Utilize the ideas behind these creative narratives to grow your business - and remember "if you do something good for one customer, they'll tell 100 other people."

Build Your Community fuses proven principles from the world of psychology with user experience and design thinking into a foolproof approach helping you to: start from scratch and attract your first members; find and design the perfect platform for your community; keep members engaged, sharing expertise, and helping each other; create a magnetic community culture—unique from any other online destination; position you and your organization at the center of your field; and budget for your community with a detailed breakdown of costs and resources required.

Customer service goals have been articulated, messages drilled, and incentive programs created. But many employees still deliver lackluster service. What does it take to get them functioning as stellar frontline representatives of the company? Rather than offering another set of tactics for improving customer service, this audiobook takes a novel approach by rooting out the real reasons employees aren’t delivering the service they should.

Being a server--well, a good server--is so much more than taking an order and dropping food off at a table. Serving with hospitality can open doors to meaningful interactions with strangers, long-term relationships with regulars, and, ultimately, consistent financial success. If you’re new to the restaurant industry, want to improve your skills, or just curious about how to succeed as a server, look no further. As an eight-year veteran and single mom who has been able to raise two kids on server income alone, you can trust me when I say I know what I’m talking about.

We are just witnessing the start of the radical changes in retail that will revolutionize shopping in every way. As Amazon and other disruptors continue to offer ever-greater value, customers' expectations will continue to ratchet up, making winning (and keeping) those customers all the more challenging. In The Shopping Revolution, Barbara E. Kahn, a foremost retail expert and professor at the Wharton School, examines the companies that have been most successful during this wave of change and offers fresh insights into what we can learn from their ascendance.

What if the key to future success lies in a simple and secret marketing approach that presidents use to get elected and start-up companies use to become billion-dollar unicorns? What if you could use this approach to convert customers in half the time, eliminate your financial risk, and secure huge profits? Now you can. Best-selling author Phillip Stutts shows you how his groundbreaking five-step marketing formula used by winning presidents and successful companies will also grow your business.

Discover how to create exceptional customer service and a superior customer experience, learning from the greatest companies of our time.

Thinking of turning your passion for crafting delightful drinks into a thriving business? 'How to Start a Home-Based Bartending Service' is your go-to guide. This book walks you through setting up your business, perfecting your drink offerings, navigating legalities, and reaching clients—all from your home. With professional insights, practical steps, and creative tips, this guide will help you transform your bartending skills into a lucrative home business. Discover the potential of personal service packages, mobile events, and signature drinks with this all-encompassing resource.

Whether you're in the trenches or the boardroom, you're going to encounter demanding, dissatisfied, and disagreeable customers. Are your people (and you) prepared to deal with them? Ignore a valid complaint and you could be the next viral sensation for all the wrong reasons. But give in to every demand and you may be consumed with the often petty complaints of your worst customers and wind up pandering to them with freebies, discounts, and special attention.

Health care is in the midst of a massive disruption. With financial structures in tatters and the future uncertain, this is the moment to begin the revolution. But first, leaders need to learn how to support staff at all levels as they make transformational improvements in care. This book demonstrates that real change is very personal and has to start at the top - whether you're an executive, governing board member, manager, or physician.

When it comes to negotiation, there is an ugly double standard. As women, if we make concessions to further a deal, we're viewed as weak. But if we play hardball, we can be seen as overly aggressive - and the strategy backfires. No wonder most women hate negotiating.

Discover the expertise of Shanthi Kumar Vemulapalli [also known as Shanthi Kumar V - Cloud DevOps MLOPS AI Career Global Coach] in Cloud Computing, DevOps, and AI, honed over 35 years in the IT industry across six nations. Since 2018, Shanthi Kumar has enlightened both IT and non-IT professionals through coaching, aiming to empower individuals to excel in transformative roles. Explore more about Shanthi Kumar's work at vskumar.blog and vskumarcoaching.com, and experience the "VSKUMARCOACHING" app, designed for online coaching tutorials in AWS and Azure job skills, fostering the growth of ...

Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space.

Your reputation defines how people see you and what they will do for you. It determines whether your bank will lend you money to buy a house or car; whether your landlord will accept you as a tenant; which employers will hire you and how much they will pay you. It can even affect your marriage prospects.

In Customer Service Is Dead, author, serial entrepreneur, and customer-service expert Mitche Graf draws on 35 years of experience developing best-in-class customer-care departments and improving communications in businesses of all sizes to offer you new and innovative methods for reinventing customer-service policies and training employees in your business to improve customer satisfaction, focus on the customer experience, and maximize business growth.

In Winning Her Business, Bridget Brennan, advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands and businesses, provides a road map for selling in a world dominated by the rise of women’s economic power.

In today's high-speed, customer-empowered world, the levels of swiftness and efficiency of business transactions will determine ultimate success or failure. In this groundbreaking guide, Dooley helps you spot the inevitable points of friction in your organization, and he provides the tools and insight you need to eliminate them. By truly understanding the impact friction can have, you'll be able to establish positive habits and eliminate negative ones - all with the end result of building a company that's the envy of your industry.